Launceston in northern Tasmania has been announced as the home of the Turnbull government’s second ‘City Deal’. The first, announced before the recent election, was Townsville. Western Sydney has...
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Down in the small business trenches these days the word is not so much ‘eat or be eaten’ as ‘disrupt or be disrupted’. Buzz phrase niceties aside, the effects...
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Malcolm Turnbull has urged Australian corporate leaders to appoint cybersecurity expertise to board level positions, and called on business and governments to create a common language for describing cyber...
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The Prime Minister’s point-man on digital government Angus Taylor will today unveil a re-engineering of the Digital Transformation Agenda – one of Malcolm Turnbull’s signature policies – that will...
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Being big is not always a prerequisite for being successful. Just ask the South Australian Chief Scientist Dr Leanna Read: If you place your bets in the right areas...
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Industry Minister Greg Hunt is considering the launch of a huge new Commonwealth-backed venture fund to support Australian high-growth scale-ups and mid-tier innovators that have found it hard to...
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The two most senior executives running the giant IBM Global Technology Services business in Australia – the service provider behind the 2016 Census debacle – have quietly separated from...
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One of Asia’s largest banks, HSBC, is the latest group to have belled the cat on the often sleepy Australian business community’s appreciation of the vast opportunities in Southeast...
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As digital transformation investments reshape the way Australian governments deliver services to the public, it is also changing the way these governments engage with the tech industry and with...
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The federal Department of Industry steadfastly refuses to call it a procurement policy or an industry development program, but the Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII) is a new...
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If a week is a long time in politics, spare thought for the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who has now been in the job for a year. His expert...
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The NSW Government has signed up to the Commonwealth’s federated model for digital identity even before detail of the new scheme has been made public, or even been put...
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To the casual observer, the Digital Transformation Office looks like it has become a high-powered revolving door. Lots of people, lots of churn. The latest senior appointment is former Treasury...
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Australia is facing a severe shortage of cyber security specialists, says Richard Byfield, head of Datacom Technical Security Services. “There’s just not enough talented personnel,” Mr Byfield says. “It’s...